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DAY ONE Thursday 21st June |
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08:30 |
Registration |
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10:00 |
Conference Welcome Opening Plenary Presentations (with surprise guest speakers) |
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12:00 |
Parallel Session 1 |
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Panel 1A – Child Migration in a Time of War: The Transfer of Children to the United States before, during and after World War Two |
Panel 1B – Medicine and Movement |
Panel 1C – Migrating within the British World, 1800-1914 |
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Panel 1D – Social Mobility and Immobility |
Panel 1E – Children’s Writing |
Panel 1F – Reading, Drama and Young Minds |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Parallel Session 2 |
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Panel 2A – Moving in Europe and Beyond: The Case of Child Victims of the Holocaust and Lessons for Today |
Panel 2B – Segregation |
Panel 2C – Education, Family and Mobility, late 17th to 20th centuries |
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Panel 2D – The Child’s Voice |
Panel 2E – Toys and Play |
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15:30 |
Afternoon Break |
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16:00 |
Parallel Session 3 |
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Panel 3A – In and Out of Institutions: Runaways, Adoptees and Uprooted Children |
Panel 3B – Children’s Culture and ‘’68 |
Panel 3C – Memories of Migration |
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Panel 3D – Boarding Schools in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Panel 3E – Transport by car, rail and on foot |
Panel 3F – Representing Young Women’s Mobility in the 20th Century |
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17:30 |
Committee Meeting |
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18:30 |
Drinks Reception followed by Optional Boat Trip |
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DAY TWO 22nd June |
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09:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Parallel Session 4 |
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Panel 4A – Moving Audiences: Children and War in the 18th and 19th Centuries |
Panel 4B– Young People, Education and Political Engagement in Late-19th and 20th-Century Britain |
Panel 4C Sociability |
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Panel 4D – Family, Movement and Difference |
Panel 4E – Public Policy and Practice |
Panel 4F– Children and Youth in Public Space |
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11:00 |
Morning Break |
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11:30 |
Parallel Session 5 |
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Panel 5A – School Magazines on the Move – Travel, Circulation and Politicisation, 1870-1939 |
Panel 5B – Young People’s Organisations |
Panel 5C – Minorities and Moving Institutions: Australia, Italy and the Netherlands, 1912-1960 |
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Panel 5D – Memories of Family and Flight |
Panel 5E – Literary Displacement |
Panel 5F – Migrants, Evacuees and Displaced People |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
AGM – all conference delegates are welcome to attend |
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15:30 |
Parallel Session 6 |
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Panel 6A – Moving Histories of Child Welfare, 1939-1969 |
Panel 6B – Children’s Geographies |
Panel 6C – Material Culture |
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17.00 |
Panel 6D – Children’s History in Practice |
Panel 6E – Embodiment |
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17:30 |
Public Lecture: Dr Kristine Alexander, Siblings, Courtship and the Transition to Adulthood during the Great War |
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19:00 |
Drinks and Conference Dinner |
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DAY THREE Saturday 23rd June |
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09:15 |
Registration |
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09:45 |
Parallel Session 7 |
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Panel 7A – Adopting Servitude: Domestic Service, Migration and the Extended Household |
Panel 7B – Movement, Record-keeping and Institutions |
Panel 7C – Maritime Movement |
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11:45 |
Panel 7D – Moving Myths |
Panel 7E – Abandonment and Bonding: Literary Representations |
Panel 7F – Urban and Rural Movement |
12:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 |
Keynote Address: Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp, Navigating Childhood and Youth in Early Modern England |
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15:10 |
Parallel Session 8 |
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Panel 8A – Girls on the Move: Working, Playing, Performing |
Panel 8B – Children’s Movement and Contemporary Artistic Media |
Panel 8C – Crossing Borders |
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Panel 8D – The Mind of the Child |
Panel 8E – World War II |
Panel 8F – Global Youth Mobilities |
DAY ONE: Thursday 21 June 2018
08:30 – 10:00 |
Registration |
10:00 – 11:30 |
Opening plenary presentations (with surprise guest speakers) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Parallel Session 1 – paired papers |
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Panel 1A – Child Migration in a Time of War: The Transfer of Children to the United States before, during and after World War Two Chair: Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary, USA
Transnational Adoption as Kin Migration: Greek Adolescents adopted by Relatives in the United States, 1948–1953 Karen Balcom, McMaster University, Canada
Cold War, Warm Embrace: The United States and the ultimate admission of Europe’s displaced orphans 1945-1952 Julia Bowes, Rutgers University, USA |
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Panel 1B – Medicine and Movement Chair: Nelleke Bakker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Disease and Movement in the London Foundling Hospital during the 18th Century Claire Rennie, The Open University, UK
Youth, Mobility and Imperial Rejuvenation in Tropical Asia David Pomfret, University of Hong Kong |
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Panel 1C – Migrating within the British World, 1800-1914 Chair: Simon Sleight, King’s College London, UK
Irish Immigrant Children in Victorian England Riona Nic Congail, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
‘I wish we had never been parted’: Children’s experiences of ‘being moved’ in Britain, Australia and Canada, c. 1850-1914 Claudia Soares, University of London, UK {Winner of CHS Best Conference Abstract Award} |
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Panel 1D – Social Mobility and Immobility Chair:
Rise as We Move? Migration and Opportunity for Black Youth in Jim Crow North Carolina, 1945-1971 Paul Ringel, High Point University, USA
Onwards and Upwards? Geographic Mobility in An Age of Social Immobility: Turkey in the 1980s and the 1990s Deniz Arzuk, Linköping University, Sweden |
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Panel 1E – Children’s Writing Chair:
Children’s Creativity on the Move: User-generated content from the imagination of adolescents, 1892-1916 Lyn Stevens, Museum of Childhood Edinburgh, UK
Children’s Imagined Journeys: Representations of parenting and gender in children’s essay competition writings in 1950s England Eleanor Murray, University of Leeds, UK |
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Panel 1F – Reading, Drama and Young Minds Chair:
Children and Theatre in London, as Reflected in the Publications of Hodgson & Co., 1821-1824 |
Margaret Lock, Independent scholar
Indecent Viewing and Immoral Doing: Reading, crime and indecency among boys Yorick Smaal, Griffith University, Australia |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 15:30 |
Parallel Session 2 |
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Panel 2A – Moving in Europe and Beyond: The Case of Child Victims of the Holocaust and Lessons for Today Chair: Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Expelled and Imprisoned: The children of refugees and displaced persons in the Warsaw ghetto. Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, University of Warsaw, Poland
Moving Child Survivors Home: From the concentration camps to Lingfield House. Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Germany
The Odyssey of Child Survivor Homes in the Post-War Years: A case of child rehabilitation on the move Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Israel |
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Panel 2B – Segregation Chair: Emma Watkins, University of Liverpool, UK
The Segregation of Nineteenth-Century Convict Juveniles Emma Watkins, University of Liverpool, UK
‘A Literary Playground’: Codes of belonging in the Australian Children’s Pages, 1906-1943 Emily Gallagher, Australian National University, Australia
Policing the Colour Line: Children and segregation in Chicago, 1910-1930 Oenone Kubie, University of Oxford, UK |
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Panel 2C – Education, Family and Mobility, late 17th to 20th centuries Chair: Nelleke Bakker, University of Groningen, UK
Educational Travel and Family Strategy in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries Richard Ansell, University of Leicester, UK
Home Education on the Move: Children and distance-learning through the Parents’ Review School across the British Empire, 1890-1920 Christina Bellaigue, University of Oxford, UK
The Secondary-Modern Pupil in the Landscape: Disciplinary problems, mobility and the urban world of post-war Britain Andrew Burchell, University of Warwick, UK |
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Panel 2D – The Child’s Voice Chair:
‘Not houses but a great piles of rubble’: Children’s writing and the wartime city in Britain, 1942 James Greenhalgh, University of Lincoln, UK
Living in Exile: The refugee crisis from a child’s perspective |
Gina Jibran
Lucy’s Adventure: Considering the research potential of a child’s letter to her grandmother, written 160 years ago Natasha Joyce, La Trobe University, Australia |
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Panel 2E – Toys and Play Chair:
The War in Miniature: Legacies of the First World War in toys and play in Britain, 1919-1939 Rachel Duffett, University of Essex, UK
Playing with Culture: British reconstructions of children’s play, 1960-1979 Emily Barker, University of Greenwich, UK
Children Running, Climbing and Exploring Landscapes of Poverty: ‘Reading’, and reminiscing with, Shirley Baker’s photos of children’s play in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s Penny Tinkler, University of Manchester, UK and Anna Douglas, Leeds University, UK |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Afternoon Break |
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16:00 – 17:30 |
Parallel Session 3 |
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Panel 3A – In and Out of Institutions: Runaways, Adoptees and Uprooted Children Chair: Katharina Rowold, University of Roehampton, UK
Perceptions of Rebellion: Reform schools and runaway girls in post-war France Beatrice Scutaru and David Niget, University of Angers, France
At the Rescue of Ceausescu’s Children: International adoption of Romanian institutionalised children during the 1990s Luciana Marioara Jinga, University of Angers, France
Yaouleds on the move: ‘Mrs Massou’s Children’, from Algeria to France (1957-1975) Yves Denéchère, University of Angers, France |
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Panel 3B – Explosions, Experiments and Institutionalisation: Children’s Culture and the Movements of ‘68 Chair: Lucy Pearson, Newcastle University, UK
The Right to Read: Children’s Rights and Children’s Publishing in Britain Lucy Pearson, Newcastle University, UK
Explosive Tales for Children: Harlin Quist Books and the May ’68 of French children’s picture books Sophie Heywood, University of Reading, UK / University of Tours, France
Scandinavian children’s television: An institutionalisation of ’68? Helle Strandgaard Jensen, University of Åarhus, Denmark |
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Panel 3C – Memories of Migration Chair:
Childhood Memories, Transnational (Dis)connections and Identity-making: A case study of diasporic Greeks in Australia Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University, UK
Memories of Youth Migration: An Australian case study Anisa Puri, Monash University, Australia |
‘He was a teacher that wasn’t all that crazy about immigrants’: Memories of post-Second World War Dutch child immigrants to Canada Elaine Toth, University of Lethbridge, Canada |
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Panel 3D – Boarding Schools in the 18th and 19th Centuries Chair:
‘It will give us great pleasure when the Holidays end to so contrive that the Schoolfellows may return together to Wandsworth’: Charting the experiences of girls sent away to boarding school in Britain, 1750-1850 Susan Skedd (English Heritage)
Childhood and Nostalgia: The foundation of the Chefoo Schools and British missionary children in China Sylvia Chang, Institute of Modern History, Taiwan
‘Great good may proceed from the education of these poor colored children’: The mobility of African American boarding school students, 1850-1880 Lisa Lamson, Marquette University, USA |
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Panel 3E –Transport by Car, Rail and on Foot Chair: Simon Sleight, King’s College, London
The Railways and Children in India Catriona Ellis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Car Sick: Hitchhiking Safety and the Decline of Youth Travel Ritual Linda Mahood, University of Guelph, Canada
Seoul Power: Canadian Youth and Walkathons in Korea, 1970s Tamara Myers, Lehigh University, USA |
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Panel 3F- Representing Young Women’s Mobility in the Twentieth Century Chair:
Young Girls on the Move in Charlotte Smith’s Miscellany Collection Begona Lasa, University of A Coruna
In transition: Elena Fortún’s Celia and the quest for identity in twentieth- century Spain Ana Puchau de Lecea, University of Melbourne, Australia
Representing Girls on the Move in 1950s and 1960s Britain Penny Tinkler, University of Manchester, UK |
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17:30 – 18:15 |
Committee Meeting – venue |
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18:30 – 19:30 |
Drinks Reception in QA063 |
QA063 |
Optional Boat Trip |
DAY TWO: Friday 22 June 2018
09:00 – 09:30 |
Registration (new arrivals only) |
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9:30 – 11:00 |
Parallel Session 4 |
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Panel 4A – Moving Audiences: Children and War in the 18th and 19th Centuries Chair: Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University, Canada |
Moved by Infant Suffering: Images of nurslings in the Napoleonic Wars Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University, Canada
Every True Friend and Lover of his Country’: Philanthropy and soldiers’ children in eighteenth-century Ireland Karen Sonnelitter, Siena College, USA
Children Writing War in the Long Nineteenth Century Emma Butcher, University of Leicester, UK |
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Panel 4B – Young People, Education and Political Engagement in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain Chair: Laura Tisdall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Politics and the Schoolgirl in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England Helen Sunderland, University of Cambridge, UK
‘The main disturbing influence… is the teenagers’: Adolescents writing about public demonstrations in 1960s Britain Laura Tisdall, Queen Mary University of London |
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Panel 4C – Sociability Chair: Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary, USA
Moving through School: The role of sociability in British and American school and college stories Nancy Rosoff, Arcadia University, US and Stephanie Spencer, University of Winchester, UK
‘You couldn’t be seen to be drunk because then you would be throwing away your right’: Pubs, clubs, and the changing lifestyles of young women in post-war Britain Sarah Kenny, University of Birmingham, UK
Moving back through time and space: High school reunions and temporalities and geographies of return in American cinema and television since the 1970s Dion Georgiou, King’s College London, UK |
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Panel 4D – Family, Movement and Difference Chair: Katharina Rowold, University of Roehampton,UK
Blended Families and Emotional Hierarchies: Stepsibling bonds in early modern England Maria Cannon, University of Portsmouth, UK
Lasting Impressions: Mixed-religion households and the education of children Ginger Frost, Samford University, USA
Desired Children: Transnational adoption of Jewish child survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War Anke Kalkbrenner, University of Berlin, Germany |
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Panel 4E – Public Policy and Practice Chair:
Genocidal Forcible Child Transfers: shattered childhoods Ruth Amir, Yezreel Valley College, Israel |
UK Child Migration to Australia after 1945: The Commonwealth, welfare state and failings of public policy Gordon Lynch, University of Kent, UK
Safeguarding and Mental Health in Childhood (1880-1920) and the Deserving/Undeserving Paradigm through History Wendy Sims-Shouten, University of Portsmouth, UK |
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Panel 4F –Children and Public Space Chair:
‘She said that her home life is very unhappy and she wanted to get away’: Children on the run in early twentieth-century Alberta Mary Ann Shantz and Eva Himka, MacEwan University, Canada
‘To shape their own destiny as well as that of their country’: Youth mobilization and the 18-year-old vote in the USA Rebecca de Schweinitz, Brigham Young University, USA
Memorialising Migrant Children in the British Empire Angela McCarthy, University of Otago, New Zealand |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Morning Break |
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11:30 – 13:00 |
Parallel Session 5 |
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Panel 5A – School Magazines on the Move: Travel, Circulation and Politicisation, 1870-39 Chair: Ed Whiffin, UCL Institute of Education, UK
‘Our Contemporaries’: The networks of English school magazines, 1870-1890 Catherine Sloan, University of Oxford, UK
‘What I did on my holidays’: Travel reports in English public school magazines in the early 20th century Ed Whiffin, UCL Institute of Education, UK
Creating internationalists: League of Nations Union junior branches and school magazines, 1919-1939 Susannah Wright, Oxford Brookes University, UK |
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Panel 5B – Young People’s Organisations Chair:
‘A Child’s Point of View’: Mobilisations of and by Australian Children in International Year of the Child (1979) Isobelle Barrett-Myering, University of New South Wales, Australia
‘Building ideal citizens?’: The role of camping in police led boys’ clubs in England and Wales 1918-1951 Beth Wilburn, The Open University, UK
Young People and the Co-operative Movement in Early Twentieth- Century Britain Tom Woodin, UCL/IOE, UK |
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Panel 5C – Minorities and Moving Institutions: Australia, Italy and the Netherlands, 1912-60 Chair:
Imagined Futures and Child ‘Rescue’: Administrating child mobilities to ‘outback’ institutions, 1912-37 |
Tim Calabria, La Trobe University, Australia
Jewish Displaced Children and Youths in Children’s Homes and Hachsharot in Italy (1943-48): A successful rehabilitative programme? Chiara Renzo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Moving Between Homes: The diagnostic observation of girls in a Dutch private reformatory during the 1950s Nelleke Bakker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Panel 5D – Memories of Family and Flight Chair:
The Holocaust, Migration, and Family Reunification: Searching for the child’s perspective Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University
‘It was the very last train to go out of Sarajevo’: Memories of departure among former Bosnian child refugees Sarah Green, University of Melbourne, Australia |
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Panel 5E – Literary Displacement Chair:
Charting their Course through the Landscape of the Holocaust: The journey of the protagonists in Jane Yolen’s works of Holocaust Fiction Kirsten Bartels, Northwestern State University, USA
Us vs. the Others: Trauma through a child’s eyes and the unburied practices of memory in Polish and Ukrainian literatures for children Dorota Michulka and Mateusz Świetlicki, University of Wrocław, Poland
Displaced Subjects: Children on the move in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s World War Two trilogy Sharon Smulders, Mount Royal University, Canada |
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Panel 5F – Migrants, Evacuees and Displaced People Chair:
Child Refugees in Classical Greece: Athenian evacuation on the eve of the Battle of Salamis Fayah Haussker, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Children of Italian Migrants in Turin and Marseille: A comparison between internal and international migration in the 1950s and 1960s Anna Badino, University of Studies Florence, Italy
Living in ‘two worlds’: Oral histories with child survivors of the Holocaust in Britain and Israel c. 1939-1965 Angela Davis, University of Warwick, UK |
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13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Annual General Meeting – All conference delegates are welcome to attend |
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15:30 – 17:00 |
Parallel Session 6 |
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Panel 6A – Moving Histories of Child Welfare, 1939-1969 Chair: Katharina Rowold, University of Roehampton
Physical, Emotional and Personal Narratives of State Intervention in the Lives of ‘problem families’ in Post-war Britain Michael Lambert, University of Liverpool, UK |
Problematising the ‘coloured child in care’: Child welfare services and post-war Commonwealth immigration Sean Male, University of Birmingham, UK
‘Evacuation could prove a blessing in disguise to this child’: Child welfare and the Second World War Jono Taylor, University of Oxford, UK |
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Panel 6B – Children’s Geographies Chair:
Playing with Geography: Commodity chains and ideological chains Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College, USA
The Child in the World: The world in the East End, 1930 to present Eithne Nightingale, Queen Mary University of London, UK
‘Draw me a map of your town’: Exploring children’s mapping skills Patrick Meehan, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK |
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Panel 6C – Material Culture Chair:
A Travelling Doll Observing Victorian London: Maria Poppet in R.H. Horne’s Memoirs of a London Doll Beatrice Moja, University of Milan, Italy
‘Virtual Exploration:’ Children’s reflections on the Wembley Empire Exhibition Rachel Neiwart, St. Catherine University, USA
Babies ‘On the Move’: Baby carriages as ‘coaches’ of ‘Royalty’ and societal realities in America and Britain, 1865-1950 Elisabeth Yang, Rutgers University, USA |
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Panel 6D – Children’s History in Practice Chair:
We All Sleep Under the Same Stars Karen Argent, The Letterpress Project
Love Carefully and without ‘overbearing-fear’: Moving teenagers to practice safer-sex through the persuasive power of authenticity in late 1980s AIDS Education Material Hannah Kershaw
Aliens? The story of how World War I university research became a living history for children and young people in modern Britain Gertie Whitfield, Whitworks, UK |
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Panel 6E Embodiment Chair:
In Search of a ‘Regular Disciplined Life’: Young Survivors on the Move in Post- Holocaust Europe Maggie Kirsh, College of William and Mary, USA ‘A Confirmed and Incurable Cripple’: Disability and the Ragged Schools, 1844- 1870 Laura Mair, University of Edinburgh, UK |
‘Embodying and Exhibiting the Nation’ – Disciplining and Mobilizing Youthful Bodies in 1950s-1970s Singapore Edgar Liao, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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17:30 – 19:00 |
Public Lecture
Sibling Relationships, Courtship, and the Transition to Adulthood during the Great War Kristine Alexander, Institute for Child and Youth Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada Chair: |
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19:00 |
Drinks and Conference Dinner: venue TBC |
DAY THREE: Saturday 23 June 2018
09:15 – 09:45 |
Registration (new arrivals only) |
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09:45 – 11:45 |
Parallel Session 7 |
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Panel 7A – Adopting Servitude: Domestic service, migration and the extended household Chair: Christine Whyte, University of Glasgow, UK
Domesticating Indigenous Children: The legacy of the US Indian boarding school movement Alice Hearst, Smith College, USA
Maids on the Move: Girls, domestic service and mobility in Zambia Sacha Hepburn, Institute of Historical Research
Debating Child Slavery: Child protection in Republican China Isabella Jackson, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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Panel 7B –Movement, Record-keeping and Institutions Chair:
Making Involuntary Migrants? The Home for Destitute Children in early 20th– Century Vermont Meghan Cope, University of Vermont, USA
Moving towards being a ‘true woman’: Notions of movement in the education of the girls of the Princess Mary Village Homes, 1870-1914 Catherine Freeman, University of Greenwich, UK
Dispersed Records, Displaced Children Kirsten Wright, University of Melbourne, Australia |
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Panel 7C – Maritime Movement Chair:
Those in Peril on the Sea: Spanish orphanage wards navigate the eighteenth-century maritime world Valentina Tikoff, DePaul University, USA
‘On the move’: Children, missions and migration, 1820-1875 Mary Clare Martin, University of Greenwich, UK
Combatant Youth: Enlisted boys in the Royal Navy and British Army 1902- 1918 Kate James
WWII Seavacuees’ Accounts of and Transformations in the ‘New World’ Lee Talley, Rowan University, USA |
Panel 7D – Moving Myths: Classical Mythology in Animation for Young Audiences Chair: Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, Australia
Myth and Movement in Australian animation for young viewers: The Deep Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, Australia
They Liked the Way She Moved: The case study of King Neptune (1932) by Walt Disney Productions Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, Poland
Myth and Movement: The Panoply Vase Animation Project Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, UK
Moving to Soviet-hood with help from classical Myths Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, Poland |
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Panel 7E –Abandonment and Bonding: Literary Perspectives Chair:
Looking at Abandoned Children in Kazuo Ishiguro Dominic Dean, University of Sussex, UK
Space, Place and Bonding: Displacement and the Child-Parent Relationship in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Emily Direen, University of Melbourne, Australia
Young Germans in the World: Youth in German colonial literature Maureen Gallagher, University of Berlin, Germany |
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Panel 7F – Urban and Rural Movement Chair: Out and About: The movement and mobility of rural youth in south west England in the early twentieth century Laura Harrison, University of the West of England, UK Making Good Citizens: The conception of ruralism of the New York Children’s Aid Society Mairena Hirschberg, Duke University, USA Childhood Mobilities amidst Urban Decline: The experience of Inner City Liverpool, 1965-1982 Daniel Warner, University of Liverpool, UK
Town mice and country mice: Mid-20th century fictional depictions of urban children in rural settings Elizabeth West, University of Reading, UK |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 15:00 |
Keynote Address Navigating Childhood and Youth in Early Modern England Emeritus Professor Bernard Capp, University of Warwick, UK
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15:10 – 16:40 |
Parallel Session 8 |
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Panel 8A – Girls on the Move: Working, Playing, Performing Chair: Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, USA
Fluid and Fleeting: Girls’ economies and girlhood cultures |
Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, USA
‘Helping to Make Our Empire Full of Good Homes’: Girls’ culture, labor, and mobility in the British Empire Elizabeth Dillenburg, University of Minnesota, USA
‘Doing a Sassy Walk’: The Language of mobility in American child beauty pageants Jennifer Whitney, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK |
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Panel 8B – Children’s Movement and Contemporary Artistic Media Chair:
Changing Childness: The shift to children’s agency in contemporary Spanish orphan narratives Rachel Beaney, Cardiff University, UK
Music, Children, and the Politics of Refugeeism in Sweden Carrie Danielson, Florida State University
Transgender in Juvenilia, or the Composition of Transgender Childhood through Performance Anthony Sansonetti, New York University, USA |
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Panel 8C – Crossing Borders Chair:
Mobilities, Spaces and Enemy Images: Palestinian, Bedouin and Israeli children and youth in the Gaza Strip Borderlands, 1948-1967 Martin Ottovay Jorgensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
‘Tempting Metropolises’: A social approach of student mobility from Colonial Asia to Europe (British India – French Indochina, 1850s – 1940s) Sara Legrandjacques, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
Borderline Youth: Independent children and youth at the Zimbabwean-South African Border Noa Levy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
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Panel 8D – The Mind of the Child Chair: Katharina Rowold, University of Roehampton, UK The Circulation of Insane Children: The experience of Garland’s lunatic asylum, 1862-1914 Cara Dobbing, University of Leicester, UK
Children, Youth and the Asylum: the admission of young patients to the York Retreat, 1860-1915 Faye Greer, University of York/York Archaeological Trust, UK.
‘No one could be found to undertake the onerous task of daily taking the child to and fro’: Mobility and the development of child psychoanalysis in mid-century Britain Nicola Sugden, University of Manchester, UK |
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Panel 8E – World War Two Chair: Miranda Sachs, College of William and Mary, USA.
The Little People of the Exodus: Children’s experiences of mobility and migration during the 1940 French Exodus Camille Mahe, University of Warwick, UK |
National Socialist Elite School pupils on the Move: The Nazi Exchange programmes with British public schools Helen Roche, UCL, UK
Beyond the ‘Biological Future of the Nation’: The evacuation of French and Belgian Children to Switzerland, 1940-1945 Chelsea Sambells, University of Glasgow, UK |
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Panel 8F -Global Youth Mobilities, Knowledge Communities and Nation Building in the Mid-20th Century Chair:
Coming of Age outside the Homeland: Travel, self-discovery and the organizational development of Lebanon’s youth clubs in the 1930s-1950s Dylan Baun, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Studying Abroad for the Good of the Nation? Mexican students, nationality, and youth mobility, 1940-1970 Rachel Newman, Columbia University, US
The Soviet Hippie Trail, or How Long-Haired Youngsters became more knowledgeable than the Politburo Juliane Fürst, University of Bristol, UK |
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17:00 |
Conference Closes Optional Drinks in the Trafalgar or the Yacht |